8 new species discovered in Boliva national parks

Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 13:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Botanists at the Missouri Botanical Garden have described eight new plant species collected in the Madidi National Park and surrounding areas located on the eastern slopes of the Andes in northern Bolivia. The new species are from several different genera and families and are published in a recent edition of the Missouri Botanical Garden journal Novon.

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